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Showing posts with label NZ's education system. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NZ's education system. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 7, 2025

Wendy Geus: Kids need to memorize tables, basic facts and spelling, not karakia and waiata

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Do NZ's appalling attendance rates reflect parents' rejection of race mandated education? Are the many women with their healthy, ene...
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Monday, September 8, 2025

Judy Gill: Te Reo– A Parent's Journey

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Forty years on from Te Reo being granted official language status in 1987, and its gradual introduction into mainstream schools through the ...
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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Steven Gaskell: The Teaching of Māori Spiritual Worldviews in New Zealand Schools

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The teaching of Māori spiritual worldviews in New Zealand schools is a legal consistency issue. New Zealand’s commitment to secular educatio...
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Monday, August 25, 2025

Judy Gill: Blasphemy 2.0

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From Waiheke to the Nation — a microcosm of New Zealand’s new Blasphemy Codes in a faux-indigenous eco-religious state INTRODUCTION Blasphem...
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Sunday, August 10, 2025

Judy Gill: Let Māori Children Choose

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What Māori Chiefs Chose in 1860 vs What Our Children Face in 2025 In 1860, at the Kohimarama Conference, Māori chiefs from across the countr...
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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Perspective with Heather du Plessis-Allan: Our kids' education is too important to muck around

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You can't accuse Erica Stanford of mucking around, can you? NCEA is gone. Marks out of 100 are back, grades from A to E are back, needin...
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Friday, July 25, 2025

Caleb Anderson: The Forgotten Excesses of Communism

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I was interested to read recently of the activities of the Communist party of Aotearoa. Founded on 22 November 2019. I have also been shocke...
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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Judy Gill: The Real Religious Schools Aren't Christian

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STATE SCHOOLS ARE NOW RELIGIOUS — AND ANTI-CHRISTIAN Let’s drop the pretence: New Zealand’s state schools are no longer secular. They are re...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2025

David Lillis: Intertwining Knowledge Systems?

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Traditional Beliefs in Science? Dr. Holly Winton has published a thought-provoking piece in The Conversation of 16 July (Winton, 2025). Evid...
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Ryan Bridge: Something needs to be done about NCEA

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If we could mark NCEA level One... would it even get an achieved. let alone a merit or excellence? We heard at the weekend about an ERO repo...
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Friday, July 18, 2025

Heather du Plessis-Allan: Erica Stanford is this Govt's MVP

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Erica Stanford is this Government's MVP.   Once again, she is taking an inexplicably...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

John Raine: Let's have some realism about Mātauranga Maori

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Traditional Knowledge in Education and Research The role in the New Zealand education system of Māori traditional knowledge, encompassed in ...
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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Zoran Rakovic: The Real Equity Is Found in Equations

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New Zealand’s education system must shift from ideology to inspiration. It’s time to teach STEM, creativity, and AI to prepare kids for the ...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Mike's Minute: Stop dumbing down our education system

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There's a bit of pushback coming from some sectors in the education business towards the reading, writing, and maths tests. These are th...
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Saturday, January 18, 2025

DTNZ: New literacy and numeracy standards lower NCEA Level 1 pass rates

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Provisional figures reveal that the introduction of new literacy and numeracy requirements has contributed to a drop in NCEA Level 1 pass ra...
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Tuesday, October 29, 2024

David Lillis: Respectful Relations between Science and Traditional Knowledge

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The following article was submitted to ACCESS: Contemporary Issues in Education (https://pesaagora.com/access-journal/) but was rejected. In...
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Tuesday, October 1, 2024

David Lillis: New Trajectories for our Universities?

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Enforced Indigenization of Our Universities The School of Clinical Sciences at Auckland University of Technology (AUT) is now on a path that...
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Tuesday, August 6, 2024

Kerre Woodham: New Zealand's education system has been failing children for a long time

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Yes, the maths. You know, I know we've been talking about this, that we have been failing our children for decades now. This is not a pr...
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